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All time
The story of the Irish duo that helped pull off a famous college basketball victory
26 Dec 2021
7.8k
0
'I would go and spar sometimes with the worst headaches but I was too proud'
26 Dec 2021
9.6k
2
'I stopped worrying about rugby after Axel died'
25 Dec 2021
47.8k
2
GAA stars reveal tips that helped them make it to the top
25 Dec 2021
16.6k
2
'I saw 89 missed calls...You’ll be named today as failing a drugs test'
24 Dec 2021
133k
21
'I was never afraid to go abroad, thinking it was going to damage my Ireland chances'
21 Nov 2021
14.5k
2
'The scribes wrote about the arrival of the complete footballer, a boy capable of excellence in all positions'
14 Nov 2021
10.9k
0
Extract: 'Thanks to climate change, Ireland's coastlines won't be in the same place'
Val Cummins and Robert Devoy
13 Nov 2021
19.7k
17
Extract: 'Well', I said to her - 'I have something to ask you but I don’t want to upset you'
Philippa Ryder
5 Nov 2021
52.0k
Martin Hayes: 'One night my father said - a stór, maybe the fiddle isn't the instrument for you'
Martin Hayes
15 Oct 2021
23.2k
6
Larry Donnelly: When politics is the business of an Irish-American political family
Larry Donnelly
13 Oct 2021
9.8k
0
Singer Loah: 'In college I found my calling - with a bit of help from Radiohead'
Sallay Matu-Garnett
13 Oct 2021
21.5k
7
'Visitors for the fight had spent $92 million... What one tourism official compared to four New Year’s Eves'
29 Aug 2021
9.5k
1
'Bonavena’s insult had to be translated, but when Ali heard it he became incensed'
22 Aug 2021
8.4k
5
'I assured him there’d be no head shots if he promised to fall down at my signal'
15 Aug 2021
8.8k
2
The Irish Read: A short story from Adrian Duncan's new collection
Aoife Barry
16 May 2021
8.9k
1
Sophie White: 'This illness is a thief and a liar. It ransacks my happy memories'
Sophie White
21 Mar 2021
48.7k
3
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
Roisin Kiberd
10 Mar 2021
9.7k
4
'He had turned down Aston Villa but decided Cardiff was the correct choice'
27 Dec 2020
37.7k
9
'Ireland’s leading goalscorer and all-time caps holder had been spectacularly snubbed'
27 Dec 2020
108k
58
'All I had to do was imagine my father’s face when confronted by his daughter’s puffed up, battered eye socket'
26 Dec 2020
7.4k
0
'This small, beautiful woman and her f***ed-up, broken life'
26 Dec 2020
11.3k
2
'Debt piled up. I was a 50-year-old single parent bringing up a teenage girl'
25 Dec 2020
14.0k
2
'It should be a moment that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life... I wish I could be happy but I can’t'
Updated 23 Dec 2020
45.8k
6
'We had just been in close contact with the Atlético players and probably 60 others'
22 Dec 2020
9.5k
2
'Joe really does get a bit emotional and it doesn’t feel right. Like seeing your dad cry'
22 Dec 2020
14.2k
6
'Kenny Dalglish was a legend of the game... He was there to support us and Seán in any way he could'
21 Dec 2020
7.2k
2
Billy Hutchinson: 'It was totally counterproductive and portrayed loyalism as backward and nasty in the eyes of the world'
Billy Hutchinson
5 Dec 2020
42.1k
48
Extract: Manchán Magan on the the controversy around the Irish word leprechaun
Manchán Magan
16 Nov 2020
69.4k
49
A Page From My Life: Three stories of love, parenthood and revelation from Irish people
Ray D'Arcy Show
14 Nov 2020
24.2k
4
Extract: Moving to the country helped me discover the secrets of the natural world
Richard Nairns
24 Oct 2020
22.9k
5
Paddy Doyle: An extract from The God Squad, by the late author
Paddy Doyle
18 Oct 2020
22.9k
8
Extract: 'To the British government, the Famine was a threat to public order'
Gillian O'Brien
17 Oct 2020
52.9k
58
'In the heat of the match he could be frightening... He was a colossus'
26 Sep 2020
54.5k
33
Extract: 'Millennials, they call them. Oh, I’m so offended at this, that and the other thing'
Colm O'Regan
25 Jul 2020
31.8k
14
'I walked out of the house to where my van was parked. I put three massive dents in the side of it'
2 Jul 2020
7.2k
1
'I was 20 years old... I thought my talent was all I needed to get by'
30 Jun 2020
13.6k
0
'It is an Irish success story, one of the greatest to come out of Ireland since the foundation of the State'
25 Jun 2020
8.4k
7
The rise of the 'water carrier'
23 Jun 2020
7.9k
0
'He used to repeat that footballers should only have sex once a week’
18 Jun 2020
7.7k
0
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